AP: Bush's Foreign Friends Fading Away Fast...

And Howards Numbers are in the tank, thank the Lord, so says the polls.

Associated Press TOM RAUM July 4, 2006 at 03:13 PM
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President Bush's stalwart foreign friends are fading fast.

Most of the leaders who defied criticism at home to stand with him onIraq and win his friendship are no longer players on the world stage, or are on their way out. And it was a small band of brothers to begin with.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said he'll step down before the next national election and is coming under increasing pressure from his own party to do it sooner. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi paid a farewell visit to the United States last week. He is leaving office in September.

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